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Selling the Car Crash and Buying the Cancer
Selling the Car Crash and Buying the Cancer
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Cognitive Dissonance
For just a few minutes I ask that you suspend disbelief and consider what I am about to say from the perspective of your point of view. Forget what others may say or do. Ignore how you think the herd might react to the scenario I’m about to outline and look deep within yourself into that honest place we all possess and rarely visit.
Suppose you were told by an extremely trusted source, I think the word is impeccable, that sometime in the next week you will suffer a terrible accident, a car crash to be specific. While you will most likely not die in or from this accident, you will probably wish you had because the pain and suffering you are facing will test you like you have never been tested before. You have no details of the event, only that it is very soon, inevitable and will be life changing.
Or………you can choose what is behind the second curtain in this fictitious world of clear foresight and alternative scenarios, and instead of immediate pain and disfigurement you get to kick the can down the road and select the cancer, the big ‘C’, and hope for the best.
The good news is the occultist seer, your provocateur of prophecy, projects that the cancer will probably not kill you as well, though the mortality rate is much higher than the car crash. And it isn’t even an especially fast acting variety, so your life can proceed pretty much uninterrupted for a year or two, maybe even more, until the surgery (cut) chemo (poison) and radiation (burn) become unavoidable and must begin.
Besides, who knows what miracles medical science can come up with between now and then? There are success stories everywhere of cancer survivors beating the odds and living a long, healthy and satisfying life. Regardless, when contemplating the choice between an emergency responder using the jaws-of-life to extract you from your mangled motor vehicle or a handsome skilled surgeon extracting your diseased colon/lung/prostate while you are knocked out cold, is there really any choice in the matter?
So when, not if, you decide to buy the cancer and sell the car crash, will your perspective change at least a little with respect to those lying corrupt disingenuous politicians, central bankers, corporate executives, too big to fail bank CEO’s and millions of other ‘bad’ guys we blame for making matters worse when the ‘obvious’ choice to make was the car crash and not the cancer?
I suppose the more important question to be asked would be why we were even at the point where this choice between two extremely poor paths was presented. Then again, conditioned slaves can complain, bicker and debate all they want about their living conditions, but never about their actual slavery.
Intellectually we understand the ‘correct’ decision to make back in 2008-2009 was to bite the bullet and select the car crash. Sure it would be tough, real tough, and there is no doubt that much suffering would follow. Millions upon millions of people stood to lose their jobs, homes and personal retirement savings and public pensions. The collapsing dominoes and the resulting whoosh would have been shocking and unimaginable even to those of us who believe we had a fairly good idea how it would all go down.
Banks and business large and small would have gone under, hundreds of municipalities most definitely would have declared bankruptcy and countless lives altered in such a way that the memory would linger from generation to generation for as long, or longer, than the reverberation from the Depression of the 1930’s.
The shock waves of the car crash would have gone global and billions would have had their standard of living slashed in half or more. In fact the greatest damage would not be felt by the first world nations, but by the second and third world. The proof is the effects seen in the less developed nations as the first world exports massive cancerous inflation in the form of currency printing. When the first world catches a cold, the second and third world comes down with life threatening pneumonia.
Unlike the scenario I outlined above where you and I are personally facing the prospect of either immediate or delayed pain, the difference when contemplating a national/global car crash or cancer choice is our perceived lack of immediate proximity to the resulting pain and suffering. Real or imagined, based in fact or fiction, we all tend to emotionally and intellectually diminish our proximity to external danger by any number of techniques such as denial, rationalization, apathy and emotional distancing.
Part of the reason we believe the car crash choice to be proper was/is our clearer understanding of the inevitable implosion that results from the cancer choice. Only this time the death and injuries will be orders of magnitude greater than what might have been experienced in 2008. We perceive little to no personal benefit from kicking the can and believe great harm will result from doing so.
In reality the only thing we know for certain is that life would be very different from today if we had faced the music back in 08-09. Better or worse is the real question, though I suspect better……if for no other reason than the wound eventually heals or it festers and you die.
In addition, we recognize the large (and growing even larger) disparity of illness and symptoms that results from the cancer choice between those who have and those who have not. It is believed that if the car crash were chosen, while the have not’s will suffer under any scenario; the haves might actually be taken down several notches while also being pulled from the wreck, a dubious assumption at best……at least for the top one or two percent.
Worse, our sense of outrage is inflamed when we realize that not only are the elite not suffering the same cancer symptoms as we are, but are actually benefiting from, even prospering from, the cancer choice. If nothing else they appear to be bleeding the middle class dry while kicking the can down the road as far and for as long as they can.
Wealth has its own rewards and distinct advantages, and the belief that the wealthy would push the floundering swimmer underwater in order to support (let along enrich) themselves is outrageous, at least from the perspective of the now underwater swimmer.
The list of reasons why ‘we’ feel the cancer to be the wrong choice, oftentimes a belief developed with the benefit of hindsight, is endless and ultimately self personalized to fit our own worldview and denial/rationalization spectrum. Regardless of the specifics of your own view on this subject, the real value to be unleashed from this introspection is the better understanding of our ‘self’ that results when we look deep into that honest place we all possess and rarely visit.
05-05-2014
Cognitive Dissonance
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Sorry for the off topic reply to an excellent read, but did you ask about just replacing the compressor? I work with HVAC on a daily basis and unless yours is an off breed it could very well be fixed for a fraction of the cost.......granted you will notice some savings on your electrical bill going to a newer system.
Yeah, i had given that some thought but it is a solid 20 years old, and was not particularly efficient, plus the air handler blower bearings were starting to get wobbly. The heat strip in the air handler (not that it would get used except emergency) was not putting much out and relatively high draw. Already had made a couple of repairs to it (cap, relay).. With Summer in Florida coming on, kinda figured it was time to replace it.
The anaolgy is actually not a Cog original. I first heard it said by Todd Harrison of Minyanville.com back in late 2008 and he was referring to the Fed/US Gvt decision to kick the can down the road, hence selling the car crash and buying the cancer.
Mrs. Cog and I have pretty much rid ourselves of all debt over the last 12 months other than a house note on a former primary residence that is still underwater. While our income is much lower, so is our monthly nut, the amount needed to pay the bills. The peace of mind that comes from lowering our 'wants' to a closer relationship to our 'needs' is priceless.
We now try to think in terms of what we can pay for with cash, or go without until we have the cash. Not a full withdrawal from the system, but most certainly an incremental one.
Ha! I wish you would talk to my wife. Just found out she decided to finance a $2000 Macbook. It was such a stupid decision i didn't even know what to say. Some people have a poor-mans outlook on finance and money, and when i mean poor-man, i mean the general thought process that looks at money not in terms of value and what something will truly cost, but in terms of "how much is this going to cost me every month". /Miffed.
No Quarter If your signature's not on the receipt, repudiate the debt.
Really bad anology. There are a lot more victims when an economy crashes, and they don't get to decide anything.
So does that mean you would pick the cancer....because there are less victims......at least immediately?
May I reiterate.......the first paragraph under the car crash image was the point of this entire bad anology.
"I suppose the more important question to be asked would be why we were even at the point where this choice between two extremely poor paths was presented. Then again, conditioned slaves can complain, bicker and debate all they want about their living conditions, but never about
their actual slavery."
"We the People Victims" won't stop being victims until we start asking ourselves better questions. As long as we debate their questions and answers we won't be freeing ourselves from our own slavery any time soon.
Kinds off topic, but I like that picture at the bottom. I had a giant wall covering sized poster of the picture in my room in college, and overseas. Spent a lot of times looking at it, and having some pretty interesting thoughts. Not sure where you got the image, but pretty sure it's the exact same thing
http://i.imgur.com/DgIEr0a.jpg
http://petapixel.com/2013/02/18/photos-from-the-worlds-first-underwater-...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads
Whenever we swallow media, we ingest a little of their paradigm.
Eventually, the heavy eaters try to speak the only truth they know, but can merely belch up the platitudes they've devoured.
Dine carefully at the trough of public 'truth.' It's got bones in it.
freakin' well said. each point of light
creates the cosmos, reflects the cosmos,
transmits the cosmos, refracts the cosmos,
refines the cosmos, translates defends and
is the bony cosmos
dr. sandi
"Bones?" The MSM is full on urban myth halloween candy.
Pigmeat Markham - Here Comes The Judge + The Trial - 1968 45rpm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvMBxlu62c0
fortunately, there is no limit to how many times we can kick the financial can down the road
this is due, of course, to the miracle of modern banking and credit creation
in fact, the bigger the kick, the bigger the benefit
hugs,
mister krugman
The unpleasant fact is that every time the can gets kicked, it gets damaged a little. Eventually, the can falls apart, just like the infrastructure that holds together the street it's beeing kicked down.
fascism needs a friend too, a base and
ideology that comforts and confuses.
a payment system to consume the consumer
into the field of externally controlled
and exploited consumption. what a mess
this technology driven fractional dress
and credit trance.
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Sing Me Back Home-Gram Parsons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAVzk2T4jU
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Moondance - Van Morrison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVYHSi3HQNg